Testing Googles Firebase Notifications on Development Device Only

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I am working on an android app where I want to be able to use the notification system within Firebase. I want to use the advanced features where I can add key/value pairs so that I can implement the notifications to do different things under certain conditions when clicked.

I obviously only want to test this on my test/development devices but can't see a way to do this.

When you say advanced features (key/value) pairs you refer to send the notification from your own server implementation? or what exactly do you need? — GeorgeLBA, Aug 23 '16 at 10:55
@GeorgeLBA No under the firebase console menu there is Notifications. From there you can enter a message and when to deliver, then you can expand Advanced and provide custom data in key/value pair format, it also includes other stuff such as expiry and priority etc — Boardy, Aug 23 '16 at 11:37
This is full totorial Sending Push Notifications to Android with Firebase https://www.codementor.io/android/tutorial/send-push-notifications-to-android-with-firebase — Tai Nguyen, Aug 23 '16 at 12:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '16 at 06:45

You should choose single device choice on "send notification" screen.

After that you should get your FCM registration token. Yo can get token via this app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tune.mytunedevice

Write your token and send notification.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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You could create a new product flavor for your app (e.g. "development") (Configure Build Variants) and create a seperate firebase project (with a seperate google-services.json file) (Add multiple google-services.json files).

Then you have different API keys for each project which don't effect each other.

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answered Aug 23 '16 at 11:54

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Sorry for the delay, got tied up with something else. This did the trick, thanks for your help – Boardy Sep 02 '16 at 16:25

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '16 at 06:37

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You can get the FCM registration ID for those testing devices and send the message just for them, or create a topic/testing and register those devices to that topic then send the message just for this topic.

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How can I get the ID? – A P Feb 04 '17 at 12:42
When the device is registered it will generate an ID you can get it programmatically send it to the firebase database... – Albert Feb 05 '17 at 18:12

Testing Googles Firebase Notifications on Development Device Only

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